On the concept of Nginx master process worker process

The relationship between Nginx's master and worker processes is like the relationship between Dissolute's "* * *" and "Madam".

If a brothel has more than * * *, and the management of each of the Madam only one, the madam is responsible for external soliciting business, and * * * Responsible for the work (processing business), if a * * * Reception of these guests, Madam will be the subsequent guests to the other * * * to receive.

Here, the madam is the master process, all requests from the client are received by master, which is equivalent to the Woker process (the following Woker processes are actually processed by the client request).

On the concept of Nginx master process worker process